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Baseball in Pittsburgh wasn’t always about Roberto Clemente, Barry Bonds or Honus Wagner. It also was about Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson and Cool Papa Bell, too, during an 11-year stretch of championships in the 1930s and 1940s unmatched by any city in the sport.
As baseball breaks for the All-Star game Tuesday night at PNC Park, some of the game’s greats who never played in the majors or did so only briefly because of racial discrimination are being remembered  at the very time blacks are disappearing from the sport at an alarming rate.
The Pirates recently unveiled at PNC Park seven statues of former black baseball stars who played in the city, as part of an exhibit about the black game that includes interactive kiosks and educational films.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13786761/from/RS.3/
As baseball breaks for the All-Star game Tuesday night at PNC Park, some of the game’s greats who never played in the majors or did so only briefly because of racial discrimination are being remembered  at the very time blacks are disappearing from the sport at an alarming rate.
The Pirates recently unveiled at PNC Park seven statues of former black baseball stars who played in the city, as part of an exhibit about the black game that includes interactive kiosks and educational films.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13786761/from/RS.3/
